Improvement in cigar-press



M. LEIPPE.

Cigar Press.

No. 56 578. Patented July 24, 1866.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN LEIPPE, or LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-PRESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,578, dated July 24, 1866; antedated February 23, 1866.

Improved Mode for Pressing Cigars: and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereoflreference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of an ordinary double screw-press, with the partitioned form-boards in place, (marked I II III 1111,) with the raisin g-wedges a a in a staple on each side. Fig. 2 shows a preparatory hand-press. Fig. 3 shows the several partitioned form-boards separately in perspective; Fig. 4, a front elevation of the same, slightly or more remotely separated, together with four distinct molds closed together, by way of showing diversity of forms.

The nature of my invention is to supply a demand for pressed cigars, which, while it gives them a uniformity of shape, are found to smoke more freely and pack better in boxes, as well as the novelty and satisfaction to the consumer. Besides ordinary hands, or the cigars made by beginners, are thereby brought into a uniform shape with those made by the best workmen.

The press as shown presents no novelty in the frame or screw. The form-boards are shown single; but cigars can be put into their allotted chamber on both sides of the press or filled from one side to the other.

The form-board I has a plain side above and below, with saw-cuts O for the reception of the partitions or metallic strips 1) b on the top face of the form-board II.

The fresh cigars are first laid side by side onto the gaged hand-press A, Fig. 2, and flattened. When they are placed into their chambers between the form-boards II and I, with their plain faces and intervening partitions, a square cigar will be formed, and fill the space between the tops and bottom and partitioned sides.

- Any of the other forms will give shape to the cigars introduced into the respective chambers or molds. The mold-board No. II has a plain upper face, with the plates or partitions b b affixed or loose in the slit made for their reception.

The lower side has a series of right-angled grooves between the partition-plates or the slit for their reception. The form-board III has a corresponding series of right-angled grooves above and semicircular ones on the under side, and slits between them for plates b on the mold-board or forming-board IIII, which latter has the other half of the circle between them-with a plain bottom. These grooves are easily made in the wood with the grain, and finish smoother than when out crosswise. Hence they are separately made and glued upon central or bottom pieces. Fig. 3 shows these form-boards with their wedges on the end and jamb for the sides of the press distinctly shown separated, with their partition-plates 12 inserted.

The wedges 0t shown on the press, Fig. l, are for the purpose of raising and holding the form-boards apart while inserting or removing the cigars, the screws, of course, being slackened after the pressing is completed, and the cigars left a sufficient time to set or dry, be the shape what it may.

The object is to have a series of presses of any amount or shape of form-boards, calculated to finish, upon one pressure, the several sides of cigars put in for novelty or facility in packing.

I am aware that presses have been used for this purpose; but I am not aware that any form-boards, grooved and partitioned, have been employed heretofore for such or other purposes.

That I claim, however, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The form-boards I II III 1111, constructed and employed substantially in the manner shown, and for the purpose specified.

MARTIN LEIPPE.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, O. A. HOWARD. 

